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the name of Multimedia!
Hello friends! As you can clearly see we are
back, by popular demand with the CD-torial section. Before I
begin briefing you on this months highlights I would like to
ask you a question. "Is Powerpoint really Multimedia?" Then
again you can ask yourself "Is 286 really a processor?"
The answer is plain enough, capital NO!
There is a fine line between what is acceptable and what is
essential. In a field that we are in, technologies change before
you can say "Windows 98". What is relevant today becomes obsolete
tomorrow.
So where do we draw the line? In these times all corporate,
entertainment and edutainment policies have become people-oriented
rather than object-oriented. You have to understand your market
and give them what they want instead of deciding what you want
to give them.
Why does Shah Rukh Khan do mushy roles? Why does Govinda wear
such loudly amusing clothes? Inspite of what critics might say,
they are minting money for their producers at the box-office
and this is because they are giving the people what they want
to see (zara hatke...as they claim).
Sadly enough in the case of Multimedia and the Internet in the
Indian scenario, the kind of stuff that is being dished out
leaves a lot to be desired. "STD ISD PCO - Internet surfing
- DTP - website designing and hosting - Tours and Travels -
Xerox - FAX" is the kind of banner that you must be seeing at
every corner of your street.
Sacrilege is not the word! It is the pure desecration of creativity
and professionalism. "Mediocrity is a crime". It's time the
Indian audiences woke up to it.
At CHIP we firmly believe in providing first hand information
to our audience streamlining our efforts to present it in the
best possible format to create awareness about the ever changing
IT industry.
Our motto: "Perfection is our goal. Excellence
will be tolerated."
We are already No. 1 in the publications and multimedia sector
and we hope to ride the crest and carry our readers with us
through limitless frontiers.
"Out with crudely presented content and dingy designs, long
live the CHIP CD!"
Celebrate the new millenium with eye-popping, mind-boggling,
show stopping software on the CHIP CD presented through a dual
interface. A real treat for all you hard-core gamers lies in
store for you with Quake III Arena. Note that it requires a
high-end graphics card with open GL support (min: 8MB RAM on
board) and that all complaints of it not running on your system
should be addressed to the team at Id Software. 25 MP3 players
plus editing and mixing utilities in the house for the budding
DJ's out there. (Do give us credit if your composition wins
a Grammy or something. On the other hand, if you are caught
for copyright infringement, we want nothing to do with you.).
Photoimpact 5.0 is a great image-editing suite that might turn
you into a DaVinci or a Rembrandt.
Are you a dedicated CHIP fan who has stuffed your cupboard with
the old issues of CHIP and are worried where you're gonna stock
our future issues? Well, kiss your worries goodbye! We have
compiled all the issues since January 1999 till date in .PDF
format, which you can refer to through an interactive interface.
I could go on and on about the featured software, but I'm gonna
sign off right now and let our CD speak for itself. |
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"Have
a Blast This Millenium!"
Peace and Understanding,
Kabir
Malkani
Designer - CHIP CD
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